Colchester, CT
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Davidson, Sarah, 1890 - 1999, bulk: 1987 - 1999
File — Folder Davidson
Scope and Contents
Presents information about Sarah Davidson and about her family in Colchester, CT Her cousin David Davidson was very active in the Jewish Community Their grandparents Harris and Frade Davidson arrived in Colchester and established a small creamery business. The families were raised in the Hartford area
Dates:
1890 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1987 - 1999
Davidson, Sarah_1999/06/02, Oral History, June 2, 1999
File — Box 29, Box: 590
Identifier: 0014 001 001590
Dates:
June 2, 1999
Agriculture & Farming
Collection
Identifier: 0007-003-004
Abstract
With deteriorating conditions in Eastern Europe, many Jews came to the United States with the dream of becoming farmers. Various charities, especially the Baron de Hirsch Fund provided guidance and support and Jewish farming communities appear throughout Connecticut. Many small farms eventually developed into hotels and resorts. This collection documents the Jewish farming community in the Greater Hartford area through family and oral histories, records, newspaper articles, and...
Dates:
1890 - 2006
Goldberg, Bernard_1986/01/29, Oral History, January 29, 1986
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 380
Dates:
January 29, 1986
Goldman, Robert, 1944 - 2013
File — Flat_file_folder 2
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
1944 - 2013
Goldman, Robert 1986/02/12, February 12, 1986
Item — Box 20, Box: 359
Identifier: 359
Dates:
February 12, 1986